Lyon-Brown-Redwood County MINNESOTA Biographies.....Francis or Frank Amos Adams January 14 1862 -
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Ellen Applegate appleg8t@earthlink.net September 22, 2004, 12:20 am
Author: Arthur P Rose
Frank A Adams ([who came to Lyon County, Minnesota in] 1877) has lived in
Eidsvold township since he was a boy fifteen years of age. He was born in
Oneida county, New York, January 14, 1862. At the age of four years he was
taken with the family to Plainview, Minnesota, and three years later to
Redwood Falls. A little later the family located in New Ulm and there Frank
attended school, his instructor being M. E. Mathews, the Marshall attorney. In
1874 the family moved to St. Paul and in that city young Adams continued his
education.
He accompanied his parents to Lyon county in June, 1877 his father taking as
a homestead claim the west half of the southwest quarter of section 4,
Eidsvold township. On that place our subject has ever since resided. His
father left the farm in 1883 and since that time Frank has owned and farmed
the old homestead. He has since purchased an additional quarter section and
farms all his land. He feeds hogs and cattle quite extensively. Part of the
old claim shanty erected by the father in 1877 still stands on the homestead,
a reminder of pioneer days. In 1908 Mr. Adams erected a fine two-story, ten-
room house and he has one of the fine homes of the vicinity. Mr. Adams has
served as a director of school district No. 43.
Mr. Adams descends from old New England stock, his ancestors having settled
in the colonies prior to the Revolutionary War. His father, Francis R. Adams,
was born in Massachusetts and is now a resident of St. Paul. Frances Louisa
(Winchell) Adams, the mother of our subject, was born in New York State and
died in St. Paul about 1892. There were seven children in the family, of whom
the following five are living: Frank A., of this biography; Hattie Munsell, of
Redwood Falls; William, a conductor of the Northern Pacific, residing in St.
Paul; Nell Voight, of St. Paul; and Charles, a dining car conductor on the
Northern Pacific, residing in St. Paul.
Charlotte L Conger became the wife of Mr. Adams on July 4, 1883, the
ceremony being performed in Marshall. Mrs. Adams was born in Durand,
Wisconsin, and is a daughter of Samuel Conger, who settled in Lyon county in
1880. Eight children have been born to Mr. And Mrs. Adams, as follows:
Francis, Clara (Mrs. Ray Dillon), of South Dakota; Harry, William, Ralph,
Stella, Roy and Kate.
Additional Comments:
Arthur P. Rose, An Illustrated History of Lyon County, Minnesota (Marshall,
Minnesota: Northern History Publishing Company, 1912), p. 293
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